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Keyboard navigation

Move between the sidebar, the terminal, and the Workbench, and walk their lists, without the mouse.

The sidebar on the left, the terminal in the middle, and the Workbench on the right are all reachable from the keyboard, and so are the lists inside them.

Move focus left and right

Ctrl+Alt+← and Ctrl+Alt+→ move focus one step at a time, from the sidebar to the terminal to the Workbench. On a Mac, Option is the Alt key, so the chord is Ctrl+Option with an arrow.

The walk wraps around: from the Workbench, Ctrl+Alt+→ comes back to the sidebar. Anything collapsed is skipped, and what you land in is briefly outlined, so you can see where focus went.

Esc in the sidebar returns focus to the terminal.

Walk a list

The deals in the sidebar, the conversations in a deal, and the files in the Workbench all take the same arrow keys. Headings and the rows under them are one list.

KeyWhat it does
Moves to the previous or next row.
Opens a closed heading; on an open heading, moves to its first row.
Closes an open heading; on a row, moves up to the heading it sits under.
Home EndMoves to the first or last row showing. Rows inside a closed heading are skipped.

Enter opens whatever the row is: a deal, a conversation, or a file.

Close a preview

With a file open in the preview, Esc closes it and leaves focus on the file list, so you can arrow straight to another file.

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